The Center for Transforming Lives released a report focusing on the obstacles faced by local single mothers, including ...

People with poverty-level family income or increasing debt levels during early adulthood have higher odds of premature death, ...

Before they became household names, these stars knew what it was like to struggle. Before fame and fortune, many celebrities ...

If you handed two people the same paycheck, one might use it to escape poverty, while the other would remain trapped in it.

One in six American children under 5 lives in poverty — a crisis that shapes health, education and opportunity. PBS’s "Born ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

By Knut Ostby and Mohamed Shahudh How we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s broadened the ...

Child poverty affects 4.5 million children in the UK. This is a political choice, and one that we must not stand for.

On Nov 1, Kerala declared that the state eradicated extreme poverty. But what does that really mean? How is extreme poverty ...

Missouri’s child poverty rate could climb sharply as pandemic-era supports and food assistance programs expire, according to ...

As politicians prepare to jet into Belém, Brazil, for the 30th annual UN climate meeting, philanthropist Bill Gates has ...